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Re: Updated: perl-5.8.0-2
- From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp at familiehaase dot de>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 22:48:05 +0200
- Subject: Re: Updated: perl-5.8.0-2
- Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere
- Reply-to: "Gerrit @ cygwin" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Hallo Rolf,
Am Montag, 31. März 2003 um 19:47 schriebst du:
> Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>> perl-5.8.0-2 release has been uploaded to sourceware
>> -- it should be on the mirrors soon.
>>
> Several problems with this version. A bunch of my scripts have stopped
> working, and when I tried to figure out why, I got some very strange
> behavior from the debugger.
> Try this (I tried it in both rxvt & 'dos box' with same results):
> 1) run "perl -d"
> 2) type "print;"
> 3) hit Ctrl+D
> 4) hit Enter
> 5) hit Enter
> When I do this, step #4 does NOTHING (and by nothing I mean: the key
> made a little click sound when I hit it, but there was no other proof
> that I hit the key). It seems that this perl needs 2 enter keys in a
> row to recognize one. I tried hitting 'a<enter>a<enter>a<enter>', and
> only 'aaa' showed on the screen (all on the same line).
This is a known 'feature', try
$ export PERLIO=perlio
or
$ export PERLIO=raw
before running a script or this test.
> Also, when I ran cygcheck, I got:
> cygcheck: dump_sysinfo: GetVolumeInformation() failed: 53
How do you run cygcheck?
Gerrit
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